Origin
Open career →Tennis’s living graph
Bridges Across
Eras
Two players do not need to have shared a court for their stories to be connected. Find the shortest chain of head-to-head meetings between them.
Shortest path found
Pete Sampras
reaches
Salvador Colvee
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 2 meetings20August 7, 1989 — February 15, 1993View Pete Sampras × Simon Youl →02 BridgeOpen career →Simon Youl
1 meeting10August 15, 1988View Simon Youl × Hugo Nunez →03 BridgeOpen career →Hugo Nunez
1 meeting10March 29, 1991View Hugo Nunez × Salvador Colvee →04 DestinationOpen career →Salvador Colvee
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeBryan Shelton
- BridgeLuis Adrian Morejon
- DestinationSalvador Colvee
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJavier Frana
- BridgeHugo Nunez
- DestinationSalvador Colvee
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAndrew Sznajder
- BridgeBertrand Madsen
- DestinationSalvador Colvee
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAndrew Sznajder
- BridgeHugo Nunez
- DestinationSalvador Colvee
How we calculate it
A search from both sides of history.
The portal traverses the head-to-head graph from both careers at the same time and stops at the first proven minimum distance. When a period is selected, only matches inside that window create links; walkovers never create connections.
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